Thesaurus results for LOPPING

lopping

verb

present participle of lop

as in pruning

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Rinse your pruners in this solution, then dry them before continuing with your pruning work.

— David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 22 July 2026
Daily tours allow the public to view the colorful creations and sometimes even spot the monarch himself out dead-heading the roses or pruning shrubs.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026

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Launched by General Mills in 1996, it was built to invite parents to turn ordinary grocery purchases into support for their child's school, originally by clipping box tops, now by scanning receipts in an app.

— Karl Mawhinney, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
He was arrested crossing the border from Mexico into Texas in September 1981, according to a news clipping from the Chicago Tribune.

— Doha Madani, NBC news, 16 July 2026

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In 2018, the DNC reformed its primaries on Sanders’s preferred terms, curtailing the role of superdelegates.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 July 2026
Jin was detained with 17 other church leaders in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades, raising worries over Beijing’s escalation in curtailing religious freedom.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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Will paring the number of awards and filling that time with more entertainment (music performances, comedy routines, more heartfelt acceptance speeches) ultimately make a difference?

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 23 July 2026
Shares jumped as much as 7% in after-hours trading, wiping out the regular-session decline before paring the gains slightly.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 July 2026

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Like GoDaddy, the image-editing functionality is basic but useful for small tasks like cropping and adjusting contrast.

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 7 July 2026
Although some breeders recommend tail docking and ear cropping for medical reasons, these claims have not been substantiated; the procedures are purely aesthetic.

— Jane Sykes, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2026

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The agent did not invent a wholly new method of hacking, Woodward says.

— Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 22 July 2026
Most tools monitor internal telemetry dressed up as external visibility, leaving adversary intent signals and hacking campaign planning invisible.

— Kumar Ritesh, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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But over the next 18 months, Poolside largely disappeared from view, while OpenAI and Anthropic ballooned to nearly trillion-dollar valuations with a crop of Chinese labs building open source models nipping at their heels.

— Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Rodri was everywhere — nipping in cleverly to intercept a dangerous Argentina pass near the halfway line, arriving right on time to provide a passing option to a team-mate in trouble and surging forward to set up a dangerous Spain attack.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 July 2026

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